Sublime

ideas argue that racist policies are the cause

The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.

Our systems, institutions, leaders and narratives about who and what we are — our lack of compassion and limited definitions of what a valued member of society is — are failing us. They have been failing us for quite some time

how Blackness is selectively celebrated (and contained) within the white imagination.

This was not a problem specific to my school or my childhood—it’s a problem